Terracotta Continues to Increase Investment in Open Source Clustering With the Release of Open Terracotta 2.2.

New Release Brings Upgrades in Transparency, Performance, as Well as New Platforms

SAN FRANCISCO -- Terracotta, Inc. a leader in delivering innovative solutions for enterprise Java scalability, today announced the general availability of Open Terracotta 2.2, a powerful, open source Java clustering solution that enables developers to achieve scalable, highly available applications using pure open source application server infrastructure without the complexity and expense of traditional JEE-based services. The latest release has been designed and tested with several open source projects whose developer communities are now looking for Terracotta support in those frameworks.

"Open Terracotta provides a very simple, transparent way to program Java applications that scale well without the headache of JEE and EJBs. The value of Terracotta's clustering approach is to allow developers to focus on the logic of their own software using plain Java and basic data structures with less time devoted to complex APIs dictated by the application server vendor in the name of scalability and availability," commented Prosper Nwankpa, co-founder of Xuqa.com, one of the fastest growing social gaming sites on the Internet.

Terracotta's users enjoy the ability to accelerate their move onto open source application servers like Tomcat, Geronimo and JBoss due to its increased transparency and open source framework support. The 2.2 release adds general availability for Spring 2.0 clustering plus preliminary support for Glassbox, Wicket and Lucene. Many businesses, small to large rely on these frameworks day to day. Terracotta has also introduced deeper support for java.util.concurrent for its advanced customers in financial services and telco industries.

Other new features include enhanced memory management and tuning for both the client and server. This release also brings performance enhancements with HTTP session clustering and Alpha support for Java 1.6. Planned, future releases are slated to provide even more enterprise functionality with diskless active-passive Terracotta servers and support for iBATIS-generated POJOs and the Quartz job scheduler.

"I am very excited to see our community start to develop so quickly. Our users have been pushing the software in significant and new ways for the past month and have even begun to help fix issues and add features. After exhaustive testing under hundreds of use cases, Open Terracotta 2.2 transitions from being stable to Generally Available, and developers will see several important new upgrades with this GA release, including improved framework support and performance," said Ari Zilka, founder and CTO at Terracotta. "We've been working feverishly to make Terracotta easy to scale so that our open source community can enjoy high performance out of the box. We will continue to make Terracotta very easy to use for the open source user."

In practice, developers rely on application server clustering and special development techniques that add costs to projects and can sometimes force developers to choose between reliability and performance. Open Terracotta 2.2 helps minimize this challenge by providing the average user of previous Terracotta releases with an estimated 30% increase in performance without having to change anything.

Availability

Open Terracotta 2.2 is free to download and use under the Terracotta Public License, which is based on the popular Mozilla Public License (MPL), and allows for free production use and distribution. For download and additional information, visit www.terracotta.org.

Terracotta Enterprise Edition is also Generally Available and provides JVM clustering for enterprises with professional support through several subscription packages. For more information on Enterprise Terracotta, visit www.terracottatech.com.

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Terracotta, Inc.

Terracotta, Inc. is an open source provider of clustering that brings high availability and scalability to Java applications. Terracotta puts control back into the hands of application developers and operators by delivering simple clustering functionality which translates directly to faster time to market, increased return on investment, and lower total cost of ownership. Terracotta customers include industry leaders in the financial services and telecom sectors. Founded in 2003, Terracotta is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco. More information on the open source community can be found at www.terracotta.org, and more information on the company at www.terracottatech.com.

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